firewall for slow connections

Which personal firewall is the best for DIAL-UP connections?

 

Well if I had a dial-up connection, I would just use the xp one.
But of course it all depends on how much time you spend on the net

So either xp's firewall or any other free one really.

 

... is NetVeda ok?

 

Never tried it sorry.

 

sweater,

As for using the XP firewall, don't! It is vulnerable to outbound connection attempts and is an inbound firewall only.

Two features you need in any firewall regardless of connection type:
1) stealth all ports to be invisible from cracker port scanning attempts
2) outbound protection against call-home trojans, etc.

Both ZoneAlarm Free or Sygate Personal Firewall provide these capabilities.

Test your port stealthedness at http://scan.sygate.com

-- Tom

 

for me, it doesnt matter dialup or dsl, id still use outpost. but if u wish to know, sygate would be a second choice.

 

I'll recommend Kerio for dial-up connections... From all firewalls this one slowed down the surfing expirence the least... NetVeda looks very good as well, and used it for a couple months, although it needs some more polishing and sometimes just forgets rules from certain applications and popups again... Since Kerio has a free version too i'll recommend to use that for now

 

Actually, I have just installed the latest NetVeda on my pc, and still in the process of testing it. But is this compatible w my Avast antivirus?

What I also need in a firewall is the one w automatic protection in a default mode since I could hardly understand the configurations of Kerio 4. Are the Kerio has a good default protection mode? Tnx...

 

Kerio's default protection is just fine, and Kerio is very simple to use Abit like ZoneAlarm I think...

As for NetVeda, it should be compatible with avast!, I tried it once and it worked without any problems (as far I could see)...